Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3034
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M 82 Cigar Galaxy HaLRGB, Eric Smith
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M 82 Cigar Galaxy HaLRGB

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M 82 Cigar Galaxy HaLRGB, Eric Smith
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M 82 Cigar Galaxy HaLRGB

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Taken from my backyard in Gérgal, Spain over 5 nights to accumulate over 32 hours on data made up of Ha Lum and RGB.

The processing of this image used a variety of techniques within PixInsight to isolate the stars from the Galaxy and blend Ha data into the RGB data.
Stretching used a combination of PixInsight's GHS and and Linear stretching to control the differences in the bright core and surrounding faint gasses.
Final colour tweaks were done in Lightroom and exported to JPG for sharing.

Thanks for looking!

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M 82 Cigar Galaxy HaLRGB, Eric Smith